Fix to make KAIO work with sockets (and likely pipes) again [was Re: Question about AIO behavior....]

[Christopher Smith <x@xxxxxxxx>]

--On Saturday, April 07, 2001 22:12:28 -0700 Christopher Smith <x@xxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Okay, I've learned a bit more about what's going on now. It appears that
> the latest patch tries to do a seek if you do a read() on a socket (and
> presumably on a pipe as well). This results in a seek error (error 29).
>
> I'm going to look into patching this myself, but I thought I'd notify the
> group in the event that I was either wrong in my analysis or if someone
> had a fix (or got one done before I did).

Please find attached a one-line patch which, if applied to the 
kaio-kern-1.3.1-2.4.2 patch file will correct the bug in the patch. This 
bug appears to also exist in the 1.3 patch as well.

Perhaps a sockets test should be added to the regression tests? ;-)

--Chris

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